Job summary
Barts Pharmacy Department are looking for a motivated individual who is ambitious and forward-thinking with clinical experience in Acute and Emergency Medicine to join our Pharmacy team at Royal London Hospital. The Trust is one of the largest and busiest in the UK and at the leading edge of emergency medicine, hosting the London Air Ambulance. It provides a full range of local and tertiary hospital services across its different sites, including Emergency and Acute Medicine being delivered from three of its four hospital sites
You will be responsible for supporting the Deputy Head of Pharmacy, in delivering high quality clinical pharmacy services to the Acute Medicine and Emergency Care Divisions at Royal London Hospital. You will be lead on promoting safe and cost-effective prescribing of medicines within the speciality in order to optimise patient outcomes, minimise adverse reactions and improve medicines safety within the division in line with national strategy. You will be supported to further develop your abilities as a senior leader via a combination of internal and external training programmes, alongside developing your clinical acumen. We welcome applications from individuals with excellent communications skills who demonstrate a patient-centred focus and compassionate and collaborative leadership. You will require excellent prioritisation skills and have a passion for service review and quality improvement.
Main duties of the job
To support the Deputy Head of Pharmacy and Associate Director of Pharmacy in the delivery of the clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to Acute Medical wards and Emergency Department at Royal London Hospital.
Manage the foundation training and senior pharmacists rotating into the specialty
To provide a high level of clinical pharmacy input to the relevant specialty as part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure optimal medicines usage and value for money
Manage drug related incidents and complaints, both written and verbal, effectively and according to Trust policies
Support and advise the senior leadership team on budget issues relating to Acute Medicine and Emergency Care services at Royal London Hospital.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant Experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
- Experience of providing a hospital-based service to Acute Medical and Emergency Care patients
- Demonstratable successful performance in a previous clinical post
- Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
- Experience of providing evaluated information on drug expenditure
- Experience of supervising staff
- Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. trainee / junior pharmacists / other HCPs
Desirable
- Successful experience of managing & leading projects
- Experience of successfully managing staff, performing appraisals and giving feedback
- Experience of providing hospital- based clinical service within Acute Medicine / Emergency Care at Band 7 level or equivalent
- Experience of managing guidelines and PGDs relevant to the speciality
- Experience of managing medication incidents
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Assertive, diplomatic, persuasive with ability to negotiate.
- Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
- Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
- Ability to manage time effectively and work to deadlines
- Demonstrates initiative
- Demonstrates critical appraisal skills
- Able to work unsupervised, follow written instruction and work under pressure IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
- Demonstrates effective customer service skills
- Good team worker
- Evidence of good ward practice
- Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
- Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training
- Effective pharmaceutical care skills.
- Ability to motivate and act as a role model
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of GPhC revalidation requirements
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Understanding of stock control systems
- Excellent knowledge of the medical management and pharmaceutical care needs of Acute Medical and Emergency Care patients
- An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to Acute Medical patients and Emergency Care.
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
- Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent
Desirable
- Knowledge of interface issues relevant to the patient group
- Knowledge of risk management issues relevant to the patient group and root cause analysis
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm Degree in Pharmacy
- Registered with GPhC
- Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum postgraduate diploma level)
- Independent prescribing qualification, or willing to undergo training to become a non-medical prescriber
Desirable
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant Experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
- Experience of providing a hospital-based service to Acute Medical and Emergency Care patients
- Demonstratable successful performance in a previous clinical post
- Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
- Experience of providing evaluated information on drug expenditure
- Experience of supervising staff
- Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. trainee / junior pharmacists / other HCPs
Desirable
- Successful experience of managing & leading projects
- Experience of successfully managing staff, performing appraisals and giving feedback
- Experience of providing hospital- based clinical service within Acute Medicine / Emergency Care at Band 7 level or equivalent
- Experience of managing guidelines and PGDs relevant to the speciality
- Experience of managing medication incidents
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Assertive, diplomatic, persuasive with ability to negotiate.
- Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
- Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
- Ability to manage time effectively and work to deadlines
- Demonstrates initiative
- Demonstrates critical appraisal skills
- Able to work unsupervised, follow written instruction and work under pressure IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
- Demonstrates effective customer service skills
- Good team worker
- Evidence of good ward practice
- Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
- Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training
- Effective pharmaceutical care skills.
- Ability to motivate and act as a role model
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of GPhC revalidation requirements
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Understanding of stock control systems
- Excellent knowledge of the medical management and pharmaceutical care needs of Acute Medical and Emergency Care patients
- An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to Acute Medical patients and Emergency Care.
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
- Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent
Desirable
- Knowledge of interface issues relevant to the patient group
- Knowledge of risk management issues relevant to the patient group and root cause analysis
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm Degree in Pharmacy
- Registered with GPhC
- Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum postgraduate diploma level)
- Independent prescribing qualification, or willing to undergo training to become a non-medical prescriber
Desirable
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
